D                  G             D
When I was a child, my family would travel
                                   A7           D
Down to western Kentucky where my parents were born
                                    G        D
There's a backwards old town that's often remembered
                        A7           D
So many times that the memories are worn

        D                                G           D   
   And daddy, won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
                                  A7       D
   Down by the Green River where Paradise lay
                                        G          D
   Well, I'm sorry, my son, but you're too late in asking
                                    A7         D
   Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away

 D                           G              D
Sometimes we'd travel right down the Green River
                                 A7        D
To the abandoned old prison down by Adrie Hill
       
Where the air smelled like snakes
           G             D
And we'd shoot with our pistols
                          A7            D
But empty pop bottles was all we would kill

        D                                G           D
   And daddy, won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
                                  A7       D
   Down by the Green River where Paradise lay
                                        G          D
   Well, I'm sorry, my son, but you're too late in asking
                                   A7          D
   Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away
 
     D                          G                D
The coal company came with the world's largest shovel
                                    A7             D
And they tortured the timber and stripped all the land
                                      G           D
And they dug for their coal 'til the land was forsaken
                                A7         D
They wrote it all down as the progress of man

        D                                G           D
   And daddy, won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
                                  A7       D
   Down by the Green River where Paradise lay
                                        G          D
   Well, I'm sorry, my son, but you're too late in asking
                                   A7          D
   Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away

        D                                G           D
   And daddy, won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
                                  A7       D
   Down by the Green River where Paradise lay
                                        G          D
   Well, I'm sorry, my son, but you're too late in asking
                                   A7          D
   Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away


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